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There is a Danish proverb which observes that rust consumes iron, and envy consumes itself.
The average woman consumes about two and a half kilograms of lipstick in her lifetime.
Author John Updike once said that a healthy male adult bore consumes each year one and a half times his own weight in other people's patience.
Japan consumes a lot of paper.
Our new washing machine consumes about half the electricity of our old model.
An adult gray whale consumes about 1,100 kilograms of food per day.
To obtain sufficient nourishment, a panda consumes as much as 36 kilograms of bamboo daily.
He consumes an enormous amount of liquor.
Agriculture consumes a great amount of water.
Therefore in the Eleventh place, it is observable, that, as in other solutions, if a copious and quick supply of fresh menstruum, though but weak, be poured on, or applied to the dissoluble body, it quickly consumes it: So this menstruum of the Air, if by Bellows, or any other such contrivance, it be copiously apply'd to the shining body, is found to dissolve it as soon, and as violently as the more strong menstruum of melted Nitre.
No doubt sponging consumes more time, but taking into consideration the more effectual manner in which the dressing can be executed alone, it is in the end most economical, especially in regard to this little parasite.
When man consumes animal food-a sheep for example-he is only consuming a portion of the food which that sheep obtained from grass, clover, turnips, &c.
Applying this principle to the analyses of the milk, it appears that the relative proportions of the two great classes of nutritive substances stand thus:[Pg 285]- Flesh forming Respiratory, expressed in their fat equivalent Cow 3•4 6•0 Ewe 4•5 6•2 Goat 4•0 5•4 Taking the general average, it may be stated, that for every pound of flesh-forming elements contained in the food of the sucking animal, it consumes respiratory compounds capable of producing one and a half pounds of fat, and this does not differ materially from the ratio subsisting between these substances in the lean animal.
When these are replaced by substances containing a large quantity of nutritive matters in a small bulk, the result is that the natural instinct of the animal causes it to continue feeding until the stomach is properly distended, and it consequently consumes a much larger quantity of food than it is capable of digesting, and a more or less considerable quantity passes unchanged through the intestines, and is lost.
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